Powder-divider



(No Model.)

J. 0. MICHAEL.

POWDER DIVIDER.

No. 368,227. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,227, dated August 16, 1887.

Serial No. 201,227. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAOOB C. MICHAEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Don ver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Powder-Divider, of which the following is a specifieation.

Hy invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dividing powdered substances into as many equal parts as desired; and the object of my invention is to provide an apparatus that with little trouble will accurately divide powdered substances and deliver the portions so divided separately into any desired receptacle. 1 attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying draw ings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view with a portion torn away, showing the blade-cone in place in the interior of the cup. Fig. 2 is a top view of the cover, showing the gate and the outlet. Fig. 3 is a top view of the cone, and Fig. 4 a side view of the cone inverted.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The cup 3 is formed inside so it will exactly (it the sharpened edges of the blades on the cone A to the point where they reach the top. In the center of this funnel-shaped cup B is a perpendicular pin, on which the cone A is lowered into the cup, and which guides it in its descent, the cone havinga hole through its center, as shown in Fig. 3, for the purpose of receiving the pin, and which must fit it nicely, and on which it revolves. The cap or cover 13 is held in position on top of the cup by the per i endicuiar edges of the blades on the cone A. (Shown in Figs. 1 and 4t.) 1n the top of this cover 13 is formed an opening, D, Fig. 2, corresponding to the open space between the blades on the cone A. livoted to the center of the cover is the gate 0, which, when it is desired, may be rotated to cover or uncover the opening D.

In operating the apparatus the cap or cove] is removed and the cone taken out. The pow der to be divided is then placed in the cup {L1H made as level as possible on its top. The com is then placed (point down) on the perpendieu lar pin, and as it is pressed down cuts the pow der into as many divisions as there are space between the blades on the cone, (and which ma: be as numerous as the ease inhand demands. Vhen the point of the cone has reached th bottom of the cup, the division is completed The cover is then placed in such a position 0: top that the opening 1) is exactly over a spac between two blades ol'the cone with the gat closed. To deliver the divided portions th apparatus is then inverted, the powder i'allin into the cap or cover. The cup is then raise off the cone and the gate opened, when th powder above the gate will drop out. Th cone is then revolved, which carries auothc portion over the opening, and so on until a' are delivered into or onto any desired rece taele.

Having now fully described my invcntioi what I claim as new, and desire to secure b Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the conical cup, tl". conical divider insertible in the cup charge with the material to be divided and having series of blades eileeting equal division of ti contents of the cup, the central guide for tl divider, and the cover, said cover having adi charge-opening and gate adapted for the d visions separately, the whole being invcrtibl the conical cup removable from the divide and the divider revoluble in the cover, sul stantially as described.

JACOB C. MICII AEL.

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